Check_MK best Nagios plugin

Introduction –Check_MK is one of the best Nagios monitoring system plugin that allows creating rule-based configuration using Python and offloading work from the Nagios core to make it scale better, allowing more systems to be monitored from a single Nagios server. It comes with a set of system checks and web based UI and a module that allows fast access to the multiple Nagios servers
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** What is Check_MK ?Check_MK is Nagios plugin to monitor remote host,services and Nagios Multisite GUI to monitor multiple nagios from single web based UI.

** What are features of Check_MK?

Check_MK is the best nagios plugin for monitoring remote host. Beauty of this plugin is that most of the commons services are checked in only one connection to remote hosts and results are submitted as passive results to nagios. This improves performance, less network traffic and of course no load or burden on remote host (which we are monitoring).
For Check_MK, we have to installed check_mk agent ie check_mk_agent simple shell script and bind this script to 6556 tcp port using xinetd daemon.